The Good Wife Review: Red Cups Runneth Over

The Good Wife Review: Red Cups Runneth Over

The Good Wife can sometimes try to be too hip for its own good. Such was the case on "Affairs of State."

I have no idea if spotlight parties, a site like After Death Space or rape apps exist (I'm guessing some form of them do) but trying to shove them all into one episode made the show come across like Amy Poehler's character in Mean Girls. You know, the mother who thinks she can still hang with her teenage kids.

Granted, I've often praised The Good Wife for being one of the few programs whose characters talk like actual people, often by referencing current events, but there's a fine line. I draw it when those references take place in the course of conversation - e.g. Eli throwing "Rahm" into a point about running for office in Chicago - as opposed to building an entire case around the technological advancement du jour. Read More...